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Cursed Gold Bricks and Pink Clay Self Guided Tour of Toulouse

Haute-Garonne

Cursed Gold Bricks and Pink Clay Self Guided Tour of Toulouse

Haute-Garonne

About

A lie about Michelangelo once saved a Renaissance mansion from demolition — and you'll stand in its courtyard on this app-based self-guided walking tour of Toulouse. From cursed Roman gold to a merchant who paid a king's ransom, this Toulouse audio tour traces how river mud, blue dye, and sheer ambition built France's Pink City. You'll learn why a convent's soaring vault rests on a single impossibly thin column, how a wrongful execution in a sunny café square inspired Voltaire to change European law, and why a medieval Black Madonna now wears haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.

No fixed schedule, no group — pause for cassoulet at Marché Victor Hugo, linger inside Saint-Sernin, or skip ah...

Highlights

From 2 hours to 4 hours

Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others

Free Cancellation

Mobile Ticket

From 2 hours to 4 hours

Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others

Free Cancellation

Mobile Ticket

What's Included

100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.

1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like

Audio and written guide included

Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded

Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation

Any physical devices or headphones

Human tour guide at location

Meeting Points

Departure

Place du Capitole

This is a self-guided audio tour on our self-guided tour app. To activate the tour, check your email for instructions from us sent right after booking. Can’t find it? Search for our company in your email inbox and spam folder. OR contact us via support.Pont Neuf

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Itinerary

Place du Capitole

Stand before eight marble columns and ask why no single person could ever open the city's most important chest.

Donjon du Capitole

Peer up at a tower built from paranoia, where eight locks required eight keys turned simultaneously.

Couvent des Jacobins

Watch an entire Gothic ceiling balance on one impossibly thin column — then find who's buried beneath it.

Rue du Taur

Walk the street a bull dragged a bishop's body through — and learn where the animal finally dropped dead.

Eglise Notre-Dame du Taur

Step inside the church built where the rope snapped and find a fourteenth-century family tree painted for people who couldn't read.

Basilique Saint-Sernin de Toulouse

Enter one of Europe's largest Romanesque churches and discover the controversy that sparked a century-long architectural war.

Jeanne d'Arc triomphante

Pause before the teenager whose courtroom answers left her own judges speechless.

Marche Victor Hugo

Taste the coiled sausage that anchors Toulouse's most fought-over dish — and a candied flower a queen couldn't stop eating.

24 hour clock

Look up at a clock face where noon sits at the top, midnight at the bottom, and the hands move at half speed.

Place Saint-Georges

Sit in the café square where a sixty-four-year-old linen merchant was broken on the wheel — and Voltaire picked up his pen.

Cathedrale St-Etienne

Compare two churches awkwardly fused together and spot why locals call this the "unfinished cathedral."

Musee des Augustins

Hear how one archaeologist's most productive lie rescued a masterpiece across town from the wrecking ball.

Georges Bemberg’s Foundation — Hotel of Assézat

Follow a young heir from sudden fortune through religious war, public betrayal, and a mansion he never finished.

Basilica of Our Lady of the Daurade

Meet a medieval Black Madonna who changes robes with the seasons — including haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.

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Cross the oldest surviving bridge in Toulouse and learn why it alone stood when floodwaters rose eight metres in a single night.

Cancellation policy

For a full refund, cancel at least 24 hours before the scheduled departure time.

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For a full refund, you must cancel at least 24 hours before the experience’s start time.

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Cut-off times are based on the experience’s local time.

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If you cancel less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time, the amount you paid will not be refunded.

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This experience requires a minimum number of travelers. If it’s canceled because the minimum isn’t met, you’ll be offered a different date/experience or a full refund.

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Any changes made less than 24 hours before the experience’s start time will not be accepted.

Itinerary

Place du Capitole

Stand before eight marble columns and ask why no single person could ever open the city's most important chest.

Donjon du Capitole

Peer up at a tower built from paranoia, where eight locks required eight keys turned simultaneously.

Couvent des Jacobins

Watch an entire Gothic ceiling balance on one impossibly thin column — then find who's buried beneath it.

Rue du Taur

Walk the street a bull dragged a bishop's body through — and learn where the animal finally dropped dead.

Eglise Notre-Dame du Taur

Step inside the church built where the rope snapped and find a fourteenth-century family tree painted for people who couldn't read.

Basilique Saint-Sernin de Toulouse

Enter one of Europe's largest Romanesque churches and discover the controversy that sparked a century-long architectural war.

Jeanne d'Arc triomphante

Pause before the teenager whose courtroom answers left her own judges speechless.

Marche Victor Hugo

Taste the coiled sausage that anchors Toulouse's most fought-over dish — and a candied flower a queen couldn't stop eating.

24 hour clock

Look up at a clock face where noon sits at the top, midnight at the bottom, and the hands move at half speed.

Place Saint-Georges

Sit in the café square where a sixty-four-year-old linen merchant was broken on the wheel — and Voltaire picked up his pen.

Cathedrale St-Etienne

Compare two churches awkwardly fused together and spot why locals call this the "unfinished cathedral."

Musee des Augustins

Hear how one archaeologist's most productive lie rescued a masterpiece across town from the wrecking ball.

Georges Bemberg’s Foundation — Hotel of Assézat

Follow a young heir from sudden fortune through religious war, public betrayal, and a mansion he never finished.

Basilica of Our Lady of the Daurade

Meet a medieval Black Madonna who changes robes with the seasons — including haute couture by Gaultier and Lacroix.

Pont Neuf

Cross the oldest surviving bridge in Toulouse and learn why it alone stood when floodwaters rose eight metres in a single night.

Cursed Gold Bricks and Pink Clay Self Guided Tour of Toulouse

Haute-Garonne

About

Highlights

From 2 hours to 4 hours

Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others

Free Cancellation

Mobile Ticket

From 2 hours to 4 hours

Offered in German (Deutsch) & 8 Others

Free Cancellation

Mobile Ticket

What's Included

100% Satisfaction Guarantee: If you don’t love the tour, write to us for a full refund.

1-year access to audio on iOS & Android. Listen to the tour anytime, as many times as you like

Audio and written guide included

Offline access to the tour (no internet connection needed) once tour is downloaded

Images to identify stops and in app interactive map for navigation

Any physical devices or headphones

Human tour guide at location

Meeting Points

Departure

Place du Capitole

Return

Pont Neuf

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